UN: Floods, heatwaves send signal about global warming – M&G Online. “Heavy rainfalls in Pakistan, India and northern England and heatwaves in Greece, Italy and Romania are indications of what might happen more frequently and more severely across the globe as a consequence of global warming,” said Salvano Briceno, director of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Heatwaves and deluges, Hell and High Water. Sound familiar?

Averting water wars in Asia – International Herald Tribune. Factoid: “Asia has less fresh water – 3,920 cubic meters per person – than any continent other than the Antarctica.” Global warming and population growth will inevitably shrink that number coming decades.